Bomb Explosion

November 23, 1985

NEW DELHI, INDIA — At least two people were killed Friday night by a bomb explosion on a train in troubled Punjab state. United News of India said the death toll was two. The Press Trust of India put it at three. The explosion occurred in the last coach of the train as it pulled into the station at Shambu, a small town near the Punjab capital, Chandigarh. Extremist members of the Sikh sect have been conducting a terrorism campaign since 1981 to get independence for Punjab.